Mark Jackley

2 poems

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Glimpsed While Driving to Work Half-asleep


A branch falls in slow motion,
lightly touches down
on the road, then rises
with a few slow flaps
of black wings, some leaves
in its mouth to build

a place where even greater
miracles occur.

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Cubicle Vs. Casket


One is dull, ochre. The other,
mahogany, gleams. One
has a phone and computer,
the other connects you to
the stars, although its neighbors
are grubs and worms. One
is larger, the other has
more room for personal growth.

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return to sawbuck 4.1

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Mark Jackley is the author of three chapbooks and the full-length collection There Will Be Silence While You Wait (Plain View Press, 2009). His work has been nominated for the Best of the Web anthology and he lives in Sterling, VA.